NewNiceMrMe Posted September 2, 2014 Report Share Posted September 2, 2014 Players coming back from injury will sort that out, no worries at all. Meanwhile, you sold a striker and got how many strikers in to replace him? Mind you, Arsenal did even better, signing the global superstar that is Welbeck. A fantastic tweet.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billy2shots Posted September 2, 2014 Report Share Posted September 2, 2014 (edited) Letting Negredo go and even John Guidetti was a huge mistake. It leaves us with 3 first team Strikers, Agueroooooooo, Dzeko and Jovetic. With Aguerooooooo and Jovetic's injury record we may have conceded the league this year. Falcao was certainly delighted when he tweeted how he was looking forward to playing for Real Madrid, the club he had his heart set on for the last 12 months. That was on Sunday. Monday he steps off the plane in Manchester with all tweets removed. Edit, Just read that the Guidetti move did not come off and he is still a city player. Edited September 2, 2014 by billy2shots Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewNiceMrMe Posted September 2, 2014 Report Share Posted September 2, 2014 If you checked Twitter you'd have seen he very quickly said it wasn't him that tweeted it (and the picture attached to the post backed it up - it was a photoshopped combination of 4 team shirts!). But hey, why let that get in the way of wishing he'd signed for City..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewNiceMrMe Posted September 2, 2014 Report Share Posted September 2, 2014 You know that Welbeck fella that Arsenal have signed? They've broken him. Injured in his first training session with the club, today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cuprabob Posted September 2, 2014 Report Share Posted September 2, 2014 (edited) Can tbey not take him back and get a refund or does the SOGA not cover footballers?:-) Should have paid by Credit Card, least that way they would get Section 75 protection:-) Edited September 2, 2014 by Cuprabob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daz Posted September 2, 2014 Report Share Posted September 2, 2014 Nah, Man U tried it when they broke Shaw, you over paid for him you keep him Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M8CKN Posted September 2, 2014 Report Share Posted September 2, 2014 Bradford have a 25% fee due on the sale of Cleverley apparently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garcon magnifique Posted September 2, 2014 Report Share Posted September 2, 2014 Similar position for Oldham with Micah Richards. Unfortunately they'll probably both go for what they're now worth. Feck all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M8CKN Posted September 2, 2014 Report Share Posted September 2, 2014 £8m for cleverly apparently. Happy days for City Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewNiceMrMe Posted September 2, 2014 Report Share Posted September 2, 2014 Cleverley Is a dick. All day yesterday trying to get higher wages at Everton and telling Villa he wasn't interested. Then Everton tell him to feck off so he goes back to United. Van Gaal tells him he's not going to play anywhere but in the reserves....and all of a sudden he's interested in Villa! Complete tit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy_Bangle Posted September 10, 2014 Report Share Posted September 10, 2014 It cost manu £5.2mil to payoff moyes and his staff. That's a great payoff for being shite, and also for a bad manager. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke Posted September 10, 2014 Author Report Share Posted September 10, 2014 Wait until they sack the latest manager. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tipex Posted September 10, 2014 Report Share Posted September 10, 2014 Not to mention the £50 odd million for not qualifying for the champions league. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torino101 Posted September 11, 2014 Report Share Posted September 11, 2014 Did I see correctly that those fined with Fifa Fair play, such as City and PSG, are going to have the proceeds from the fine shared out amongst other clubs??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billy2shots Posted September 11, 2014 Report Share Posted September 11, 2014 Probably. It all one big joke. How can clubs with healthy bank balances be fined for spending their own money. At the same time other clubs can quite happily spend well over a hundred million even though they are massively in debt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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billy2shots Posted September 11, 2014 Report Share Posted September 11, 2014 Genuinely interest in what Man U fans think about the way their club is run. Utd fans loved to remind Chelsea and City fans that they bought their titles and Utd won theirs bringing through youth players. Now Utd are spending huge and selling their younger home grown players. Personally I don't think it matters a jot, and I think it has spiced up the league no end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garcon magnifique Posted September 11, 2014 Report Share Posted September 11, 2014 Sometimes if you try to hold on to tradition too tightly you get left behind. United had to do something dramatic to regain lost ground. I don't particularly like the reliance on expensive foreign talent but it's the FA that needs to work out how to change it, not individual clubs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke Posted September 11, 2014 Author Report Share Posted September 11, 2014 Managers haven't got the time to get the youth up to speed anymore. They need instant success or they are out the door. If they can get the team playing well and the board take a long term view than they can start to do it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waylander Posted September 11, 2014 Report Share Posted September 11, 2014 Surprised no-one has commented about the strange statement from Wenger that he only wanted to sign Welbeck on loan and he would not have been signed if he was in the country on Monday Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garcon magnifique Posted September 11, 2014 Report Share Posted September 11, 2014 The old ****'s clearly losing the plot. I can still confidently predict the usual implosion by Arsene/al after the new year. If the board had any ambition he'd be gone by now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewNiceMrMe Posted September 11, 2014 Report Share Posted September 11, 2014 I have no issues with the home-grown players being sold - at least not the ones we have got rid of. They're just not good enough. Cleverley has under-performed for far too long. Welbeck just doesn't cut it either and the Arsenal fans who moved from being devastated to ecstatic over 2 Welbeck goals in an England shirt are hilarious. We've kept our best home-grown young striker - James Wilson. The best at the club for his age by an absolute mile and someone you'll hear a lot more of in future. We still have lots of home-grown talent. However, we needed to act now. I don't have any issues with the spending at all. We've made good money on those that have gone out of the door and we needed to make big signings and have done. The Falcao and Di Maria signings are excellent, the former in particular. He will rip the division apart, in my view. Anyone who is a fan of football will admit that if they'd got Falcao they'd have been doing the same somersaults Manchester United fans are. The money spent is still a drop in the ocean by comparison to what has been spent elsewhere over the years. I applauded City when they won the league last year because they were the best team. Regardless of money spent, they simply were. I think Chelsea will win it this year for the same reasons. I can't say I like the money game, but it is what it is. FIFA don't seem prepared to do anything 'real' about it so everyone is going to join in if they have it, and United have it. The references to debt just don't make a good argument. Everyone knows the club has cash (and there's still another £100m apparently) and the way the debt is structured isn't too big an issue. Most financial analysts will tell you the same - if the club was in trouble there'd be a line of rich suitors queuing around the stadium to buy it, mostly from the UAE and Qatar. People can talk about debt and Man United as much as they want, but it isn't a debt that is ever going to truly trouble the club because of the brand power it carries. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billy2shots Posted September 11, 2014 Report Share Posted September 11, 2014 The way the debt is structured is not a danger to Utd as a club. However it is still debt and that's why I think financial fair play is a croc of shite. Clubs like PSG, Monaco, City etc have balances in the black and are spending their own cash. Clubs like Utd etc are in the red. Regardless of how easy they can service that debt, they are still in a negative balance. Plenty of business's run like that and I have know issue with individual clubs , it's the system that should not have been out in place I don't like. France implemented a similar rule in the 90s. Lyon were the biggest club by far at that time. They had the biggest turnover and could therefore spend the most in the transfer market. They won the League 7 times in a row. Financial fair play is in place to keep Europes elite clubs clear of the rest of the pack. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garcon magnifique Posted September 11, 2014 Report Share Posted September 11, 2014 (edited) Financial fair play is not about how much cash or debt a club's owners choose to give it. It's about balancing the books. Balancing football income and football expenditure from year to year. It's about protecting clubs from the whims of owners. However it's not perfect and it's implemented by a bunch of crooks, so it'll never actually serve the purpose if should. Edited September 11, 2014 by garcon magnifique Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torino101 Posted September 13, 2014 Report Share Posted September 13, 2014 So is Pardew going to be the first casualty this season??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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